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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. And Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is calling the fatal shooting of State Representative Melissa Hortman a political assassination. Minnesota Public Radio's Clay Masters says she was consequential. Representative Hortman had served as speaker, was serving in kind of this co-speakership. She was one of the most steady hands in making sure a deal could get done. President Trump is calling the Minnesota shootings a targeted attack. And Piaras Franco Ordonez reports a manhunt is underway for the gunman.

President Trump says he's been briefed on the shootings that killed a Minnesota state representative and her husband. A state senator and his wife were also shot and wounded. Taking to social media, Trump said, quote, such horrific violence will not be tolerated. A man posing as a police officer shot and killed Melissa Hortman, a former Minnesota House speaker, and her spouse at their home. A second lawmaker, Senator John Hoffman and his wife were shot multiple times separately. Trump said the FBI is assisting state and local law enforcement with the investigation.

He said anyone involved will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Franco Ordonez, NPR News. Festivities are already underway in Washington, D.C. to mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. On the National Mall and tonight, starting at 6.30, a military parade will march through the streets of the capital city. Tanks and soldiers, parachute jumps and flyovers are among the display of military might slated for the big event. Demonstrators across the country are protesting. From

member station WVXU, Bill Reinhart has more. Today is the Army's 250th anniversary. It's also President Trump's birthday. Army vet Forrest Brant worries that's the real reason for the parade. People don't see it as a celebration of the Army's 250th. Let's get that sham out there right now. They see it as Donald Trump's birthday party. You know, Lincoln and Washington earned birthday parties. Brandt has no problem with the National Guard getting called up ahead of demonstrations, but he calls Trump's decision to federalize the Guard in California, without a request from the governor, a dangerous violation of past

precedent. For NPR News, I'm Bill Reinhart in Cincinnati. Expat's overseas are also demonstrating against the military parade through Washington, D.C. A couple of hundreds showed up in Restorer Square in Lisbon, Portugal earlier today. Fascism! Not in America! Similar expat protests are being held across Europe, including those in England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Greece, and Denmark. This is NPR News in Washington. A Britpop group has reached the top of the UK album charts for the first time in 27 years.

Vicki Barker has details from London. Entitled More, this is the first album from the group Pulp in 24 years and its first UK number one album since 1998. The Sheffield band, fronted by Jarvis Cocker, never had a top 40 U.S. hit during its heyday. But this single, Spike Island, from the Moore album, did reach number 32 on the Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay chart earlier this month. One U.K. reviewer's given the album four stars, also noting that The Passage of Time has seen a band that once

mused about cuckoldry as an act of class war, now addresses how divorce impacts your potential to find love again. For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London. Federal appeals court voted 8-2 not to reconsider its ruling to uphold a five million dollar civil judgment against President Trump in the case of advice columnist E. Gene Carroll. A jury had found in a 2023 trial that in 1996, in what started out as a friendly department store encounter, Trump had sexually abused the writer. Trump's lawyers had petitioned the full appellate court to rehear the case. In the Friday decision, the panel said that that would not be appropriate. In hockey, the Edmonton Oilers play the Florida Panthers tonight for Game 5 of the Stanley

Cup Final. They're tied 2-2. I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News.